PSYC 3490 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Relational Aggression, Electrodermal Activity, Operational Definition
6 Mar 2014
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For instance, women are especially likely to react positively to infants when other people are nearby: gender differences are generally largest when gender is prominent and other shared roles are minimized. For example, at a singles" bar, a person"s gender is very relevant, so gender differences are likely to be large. For example, men might be especially likely to volunteer to change a tire or perform a similar skill traditionally associated with men in our culture. Nonverbal: refers to all forms of human communication that do not focus on the actual words (tone of voice, facial expression, and ever how far you stand from another person) Women and men are fairly similar in their patterns of verbal communication. Studies show no substantial gender differences in the length of college students" conversations with their friends, their oral description, and their written descriptions of vivid memories. In other research, males are more talkative than females.
